Solar Corona, Highest Resolution Images Ever Taken Just Released

The highest-resolution images ever taken of the Sun’s corona were just released by NASA. The solar corona is the million-degree or so outer atmosphere. The 16-megapixel images, taken in the extreme-ultraviolet wavelength of light, were captured by NASA’s High Resolution Coronal Imager, or Hi-C, which was launched on a sounding rocket on July 11th. The Hi-C telescope is capable of five times more detail than the next-best observations by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.